Champions Monomoy Girl, Essential Quality Return To Fair Grounds To Prepare For Next Engagements Sponsored by:
Monomoy Girl and Florent Geroux winning the Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn
Champions Monomoy Girl and Essential Quality left Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Ark., late Tuesday morning after successful 2021 debuts over the weekend for Eclipse Award-winning trainer Brad Cox.
Assistant trainer Jorgito Abrego, who oversees Cox s Oaklawn division, said Monomoy Girl and Essential Quality were vanned back to Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., where they have been based and trained this winter, and now, early spring. Essential Quality (4 for 4 overall) won Saturday s $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds, his first start since clinching an Eclipse Award as the country s champion 2-year-old male in the $2 million Breeders Cup Juvenile (G1) Nov. 6 at Keeneland.